US President Dwight Eisenhower examining a gift, a model of the Lunik II, from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev upon the latter's visit to the White House on September 19, 1959. Two days earlier, the Soviet spacecraft was the first man-made object to land on the moon, beating the Americans. Privately, Eisenhower remarked, "the fellow might have been sincere".

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